Connie Lucey

The cleanup started Friday inside of an apartment that was the home of a habitual hoarder. A week ago, Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies ordered Ken Goldsmith out of his apartment in Friendship after a 10-month battle with his landlord, Connie Lucey.

A local woman’s yearlong battle to get a hoarder out of her apartment has taken an ugly turn. Connie Lucey says a tenant who refuses to leave her Friendship apartment in now buried under 10-feet of garbage.

Garbage and junk piled high – insects buzzing around the ceiling. That is how investigators describe the apartment of a man they call a hoarder. And they say – this is not the first time he has done this.